An exhaustive study by three congressional committees delivers startling news about the dire effects of Obamacare: President Barack Obamas signature legislation could increase health insurance premiums by over 200 percent and render insurance coverage unaffordable for millions of Americans.

Broadly, the new report declares that Obamacare breaks its core promise to make healthcare coverage affordable.

The report, The Price of Obamacares Broken Promises, was prepared by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Majority Staff; Senate Committee on Finance, Minority Staff; and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Minority Staff.

Studies and analyses from the Congressional Budget Office, independent actuaries, state insurance commissioners, health plans, benefit consultants, and others have reached the same conclusion: Obamacare will significantly increase premiums, the congressional report states.

Some estimates show some Americans facing startling premium increases of 203 percent because of the law.

If enough claims are shown to be materially false, a government consumer protection agency would intervene on behalf of a consumer to protect them from the evil greedy corporation that sold them the bill of goods based on fraudulent claims.

Who can we call to protect us against ObamaCare as the fraudulent claims pile up?

And almost half the Republican US Senators voted yesterday for H.R. 933 (Department of Defense, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 that includes Obamacare funding.

Absolutely, these premium rate increases will collapse the system and chaos will ensue. The voters will demand that the government DO SOMETHING and the politicians will give them single payer government health care that will employ millions of permanent Democrat voters.

Not unexpected. Law of supply and demand still applies. Declining supply of doctors (as is well documented) combined with increased demand WILL result in some combination of increased prices and shortages (rationing).

Anyone who thought differently was/is an idiot. Many of those who said differently were lying to take advantage of the idiots.

Anecdotal evidence ... mine ... Monthly premiums for private insurance went from $576 to $776 to $1130 in 15 months. I guess I should be grateful, however, as a friend of mine 5 years younger than I now pays $1250 a month for his.

I will be eligible for Medicare in 18 months, if I live that long. I wonder if I will be one of the first ones to be denied care.

Pensioner placed on Liverpool Care Pathway WITHOUT family's permission dies after spending eight days without food or water Susan Phillips said father Robert Goold, 69, was left to slowly deteriorate She claimed doctors said there was no record in his notes about LCP He died without being able to say goodbye to his wife of 51 years Addenbrooke's Hospital said it will investigate the family's claims

By Leon Watson

PUBLISHED: 08:04 EST, 6 March 2013 | UPDATED: 12:06 EST, 6 March 2013

A grieving daughter has lodged a complaint against a hospital which left her father to die on a 'barbaric' end of life pathway for eight days without her permission.

Susan Phillips said her 69-year-old father Robert Goold was left to slowly deteriorate for more than a week on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway.

The pensioner, who had dementia, got weaker and weaker as doctors took food, water and oxygen away from him but survived longer than they expected.

Addenbrooke's Hospital...yeah...they did the same to my dad...only he wasn't suffering from dementia...at least they gave him a morhene drip that he could work

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posted on 03/21/2013 8:10:38 AM PDT
by spokeshave
(The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)

Monthly premiums for private insurance went from $576 to $776 to $1130 in 15 months. I guess I should be grateful, however, as a friend of mine 5 years younger than I now pays $1250 a month for his.

Ours went from $668/mon to $1439 over a similar time period, all due to extra stuff Omaba care made them add to our high dectucible policy ($10,000 deductible).

That's $17, 268 dollars a year !! I can't really afford it anymore, though now I get to have pregnancy coverage ( past the age, I'm afraid), early drug/alcohol intervention treatment (mr rb and I neither drink, nor smoke), and a whole host of other coverages we neither want, nor can afford.

Absolutely, these premium rate increases will collapse the system and chaos will ensue. The voters will demand that the government DO SOMETHING and the politicians will give them single payer government health care that will employ millions of permanent Democrat voters.

It's the greedy insurance companies, of course.

I guess they've just become exceptionally greedy lately.

I'm just grateful that Obama, with his business experience scooping ice cream for Baskin Robbins, will know what to do.

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it.The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics”-Thomas Sowell

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posted on 03/21/2013 8:59:06 AM PDT
by TurboZamboni
(Looting the future to bribe the present)

And therein might be your solution if you can throw away all your values and upbringing - go to the emergency room, give an ID that you purchased on the street corner and a transient address - get free health care.

“All part of the plan to have the feral government own everything and the peasants rent everything from them.”

TD!

I wonder how many people realize this Bury the middle class, exterminate jobs, lose homes. Turn these homes into Section 8 all over the US especially those that are ethnically or culturally challenged.

These liberals have made this personal. It is not about some theoretical ideology. Peoples lives are being turned upside down and trashed by these a-holes.

Yup. I just take it one day at a time.

What pisses me off is the media ignoring all this suffering. I remember how they hounded Reagan with endless stories of the homeless. Apparently, that problem has been solved.

My accountant's wife has been out of work for a year. My next door neighbor for two. BIL has been laid off twice. Two of his kids can't find work. I haven't seen anything like this in my 30 years of work. In truth, this is the second great depression.

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